Their troupe had appeared at the Surf Ballroom in nearby Clear Lake last night and they were flying in a chartered plane to Fargo, N.D., in advance of the troupe’s engagement there tonight. The others went by chartered bus.

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Valens recently finished his first motion picture, “Go Johnny! Go.” His first recording six months ago, “Donna,” sold more than a million copies, the Del-Fi Record Co. said.

Holly hit the rock ’n’ roll pinnacle with his recordings of “Peggy Sue” and “That’ll Be the Day.”

Both reportedly sold more than a million and a half copies.

Richardson was on leave as a disk jockey, singer and radio program director at station KTRM in Beaumont. His “Chantilly Lace” was rated by Billboard for a time as the third most played record and was released to 37 other countries.